Lavasa and Jindal : Double standard of Environment ministry
Ramesh Agrawal from Jan Chetna says that Environment ministry has given a show cause notice to a housing scheme in Lavasa Pune because the work of that project had started without environment clearance. Jindal has started a 300 MW power plant in Tamnar in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh in the same fashion without any environment clearanace. But on 9th November the ministry has given go ahead to the Jindals. It is beyond normal comprehension that how come a ministry punishes one person for a crime while rewarding the other for the same